An observation about facebook

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<p>Okay, so you know how there are facebook pages for the "class of 20XX"? Where everyone introduces themselves and begs for a roommate? </p>

<p>I'm looking at the page for the freshmen class at Ohio University (even though i'm a transfer), and besides "LOVE TO PARTY HARD" as a common denominator in everyone's posts, almost everyone says "Yea im real laid back, chill, hit me up"..</p>

<p>..Now im willing to be any money that a majority of those people are not "chill" or "laid back".. actually from my experience people who claim to be these things are the ones who are the source of all trouble and ******baggery that goes on, anywhere. </p>

<p>Is there some psychological thing at work here? That these people need to advertise their "laid back" "Chill" and "Loves to have fun" attributes? </p>

<p>Why not, "ready to work hard for my education, but likes to hang out with friends"? Maybe i'm a little ahead of my time.. or behind it</p>

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<p>You’re not going to make a lot of friends are you.</p>

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<p>???</p>

<p>I’ve never had major issues making friends because not everyone likes to get wasted to have fun. </p>

<p>I just found it strange that these people need to advertise themselves on facebook, and more strange that they literally all said the same thing</p>

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<p>**** chill out bro</p>

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<p>Dantheman91, I agree with your post there.</p>

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<p>I’m glad my roommate will be random.</p>

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<p>I’m going in blind.</p>

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<p>what janofleiden said</p>

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<p>Just because THOSE people post stuff like that doesn’t mean that everyone that attends the school feels like that…and if they do then why do you care? Its not like it really affects you…</p>

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<p>I’m not saying everyone is like that, and hell i don’t have a problem with them doing there thing. But its just weird that everyone on that facebook page followed a “Hey i’m x majoring in y. Im chilled laid back and love to party hit me up”</p>

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<p>People want to seem open and approachable. What’s so hard to understand about that?</p>

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<p>All I see that as is them trying to meet people before they start attending the college.</p>

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<p>Avoid everyone at all costs.</p>

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<p>Well no one’s going to advertise themselves as “a total ******bag who will sleep with your girlfriend and throw up on your bed.”<br>
Everyone wants to seem chill and laid back.</p>

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<p>^
Truth.</p>

<p>10char</p>

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<p>“I’m chill and layed back” doesn’t mean “I don’t like to party.” Absolutely no connection there.</p>

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<p>Being completely honest will never get you anywhere.</p>

<p>For example, on my roommate survey I typed, “I’m gay and grades mean a lot to me because I want to go JHU/Georgia Tech/Stanford for grad school.”</p>

<p>Unsurprisingly, I’ve gotten no responses.</p>

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Unless you’re The Most Interesting Man Alive.</p>

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<p>If someone does respond though, BlackBeltDuckie, you’ll have a better sense of temperamental compatibility than if you just posted the generic “laid back and chill” thing that really reveals nothing about who you are. </p>

<p>It’s sort of like those people who go on dating websites and post misleading information about themselves (generally using ultra-close photography to hide their physique and creating a list of seemingly-contradictory adjectives to describe their personality like “carefree and meticulous”). They’re probably miserable with the results because they’re attracting people that they really aren’t compatible with.</p>

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<p>They can say whatever they want to advertise themselves, but all the people who used the “im chill and laid back” formula actually didn’t get much of a response from other users. The guy who said “i’m chill laid back” AND “this is what i like to do etc” DID get a response from someone who had similar interests. </p>

<p>If you just say “im chill and laid back” its pretty much saying “im exactly what all these other people are”… whose gonna remember you?</p>